Fireworks AI
Founding Data Scientist, Capacity & Pricing Optimization
$250K–$300K
San Mateo · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in pricing, revenue management, or optimization.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or a related quantitative field; PhD preferred.
About the job
Build and own quantitative models for pricing, packaging, and GPU capacity allocation to balance supply and customer demand.
What you'll do
- Model serverless inference fill rates and traffic sharing to set capacity buffers.
- Develop pricing policies and run experiments and causal studies to optimize utilization and price-yield.
- Optimize GPU matching and capacity sourcing across hardware, vendors, clouds, regions, and commitment terms.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in pricing, revenue management, or optimization.
- Strong grounding in at least two of stochastic optimization, revenue management and pricing, causal inference and experimental design, or combinatorial optimization.
- Strong coding and optimization skills, with a track record of production-quality models driving business impact.
Nice to have
- Experience on capacity planning, forecasting, or pricing science teams at a cloud provider or marketplace.
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and LLM inference economics; experience as a first quantitative hire.
Pay
$250K – $300K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
GPU, LLM
AI focus
Optimize capacity, pricing, and hardware allocation for AI inference workloads.
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